Barry Diller

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Diller was born and raised in San Francisco, California, the son of Reva (née Addison) and Michael Diller.^[3] He began his career through a family connection^[4] in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency after dropping out of UCLA after one semester. He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule, then west coast head of ABC who was promoted to network President at the same time Diller went to work for him in 1964, taking him on to New York, and Diller was soon placed in charge of negotiating broadcast rights to feature films. He was promoted to Vice President of Development in 1965. In this position, Diller created the ABC Movie of the Week, pioneering the concept of the made-for-television movie through a regular series of 90-minute films produced exclusively for television.

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History
The nonprofit Vital Voices Global Partnership grew out of the U.S. government's Vital Voices Democracy Initiative. The Vital Voices Democracy Initiative was established in 1997 by First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, following the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing to promote the advancement of women as a U.S. foreign policy goal.^[1]
The Vital Voices Democracy Initiative led to the creation of Vital Voices Global Partnership as a nonprofit non-governmental organization (NGO) in June 2000.
Former Hillary Clinton aide and chief of staff Melanne Verveer is co-founder of the global partnership and its board chair.^[2] Other co-founders were Alyse Nelson (current President of Vital Voices Global Partnership),^[3] Donna McLarty, Mary Yerrick, and Theresa Loar.^[4] Loar was the founding President of the Vital Voices Global Partnership^[5] and also served as Director of the Vital Voices Democracy Initiative at the U.S. Department of State, the Senior Coordinator for International Women's' Issues at the U.S. Department of State^[6] and Director of the President's Interagency Council on Women.^[7]
Besides Clinton, honorary chairs include current and former U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and Nancy Kassebaum Baker.^[2]
Funding has come from a variety of sources, including individual donations, corporate sponsorships such as from ExxonMobil,^[8] and the efforts of the Clinton Global Initiative.^[9]
In 2002 Vital Voices was asked by First Lady Laura Bush to drive the effort to supply school uniforms to the many girls returning to school for the first time following the U.S. led overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan.^[10]


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